The Economist has an article (The evangelist of entrepreneurship) on Carl Schramm and his "mission to teach the world to be entrepreneurial." Here is an excerpt from the article.

A key moment came in 1980 when America adopted the Bayh-Dole act, giving universities a serious financial stake in the intellectual property generated by their research. Yet Mr Schramm worries that universities are becoming too bureaucratic in their approach to intellectual property, creating a new bottleneck in the transfer of technology to start-ups. Several big firms have told Mr Schramm recently that they are considering switching research to universities in some developing countries, because there will be no question over who owns the rights to a breakthrough in those countries.

The university bottleneck is number two in Mr Schramm's top three worries. Number three is that favourite bugbear of American businessmen, an anti-corporate attitude that spawns burdensome government legislation, such as parts of the Sarbanes-Oxley act. But the top worry for Mr Schramm (and many others), is the low quality of much of America's educational system—since the most important ingredient of entrepreneurial capitalism is human capital. Happily, the other main focus of the Kauffman foundation is education: it is funding new approaches to teaching maths and science that Mr Schramm hopes will be imitated nationwide. (Economist.com, 11/03/05.)